Ryusui @theryusui@computerfairi.es

Either capitalism dies or the planet does

I had occasion to refer to this page online today, so I took a quick photo.

"Gore, and Hazards of the Course" from Barbara Ninde Byfield's _The Glass Harmonica_. (Also reprinted as _The Book of Weird_.)

This is a strange literary treasure which really deserves to be available online somewhere.

#Books #Lexicons #Fantasy

on linux everything is a file, which means you do everything through normal file operations like read, write, and ioctl(fd, DRM_IOCTL_MODE_ADDFB2, &drm_fb2);

the cool part about mastodon is that you cannot kill me in a way that matters

who hacked captain picard's twitter account

Dystopian science fiction story where someone makes the observation that a bunch of classic internet memes are now old enough to vote and an edgelord-packed Supreme Court subsequently rules that this is true. The next year internet memes begin voting in increasing numbers

who was earl grey

I'm so glad I gave Strange New Worlds a try. This episode is doing things I can't imagine seeing on any of the other shows.

PSD Animals--Crab

INTERNET RATIONALIST: Consider the following thought experiment. Imagine a hyperintelligent artificial intelligence–

ME: No

INTERNET RATIONALIST: What

ME: I am declining to imagine the hyperintelligent artificial intelligence.

INTERNET RATIONALIST:

ME: I'm thinking about birds right now

INTERNET RATIONALIST:

ME: Dozens of crows, perched atop great standing stones

Coming up on 70 years of person A going “You see, software will never be able to do X!” and immediately being proven grotesquely wrong, then person B going “You see, this software is basically a person!” and immediately being proven grotesquely wrong, and so on like the world’s most evenly matched and annoying game of table tennis.

there are 10 kinds of people: those who only understand binary, and 9 more who think and feel on completely different spectra

https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/121lhfq/i_lost_everything_that_made_me_love_my_job/

I'm sorry, but I've stopped finding myself in this world. Just, like, sincerely speaking. Stuff like this, for a person who hinged their worth on utility, terrifies me. Maybe this is my boomer point, but generative AI - even with its inherent limitations - made me unable to imagine living in the world I am about to exist in.

How the fuck do I begin to explain this when I finally haul my ass to a therapist? Because I'll have to eventually, I can't possibly delay it for the fifteenth year.

I love logic gates, I'm going to eat a NAND gate

Gameplay for Hello Operator continues to evolve. After I decided the flow was better if the player wasn't in the dead center of the single-screen field of play, I redesigned the mining platform for more of a side view. I think this gives it more character than the previous design. It's still very much a WIP/placeholder.

The basic shape is right, but the texture/styling isn't there. And the main mining turret is more a general idea than how I want it to look.

The main reason I started playing with this dynamic is I didn't want the player to be beset from all sides right away, but having rocks spawn in from one side of the screen still felt cramped when there was no room for them to not be up in your business immediately.

Have the banks considered eating less avocado toast?

C++ needs an inheritance tax

You're not going to want to hear this, but you may need to consider the possibility that it's a You Problem rather than a Them Problem.

I'm not saying it -is- a You Problem. but it -could- be a You Problem.

@darius Certain NES/SNES games have this sense of having been made in some other dimension and the only reason they feel that way is they were made in Europe

(and usually originally targeted a microcomputer that DOS steamrollered in the US)

I'm not overly concerned with aesthetics as I zero in on a playable demo, but I'm not *not* concerned with aesthetics.

Basically, I want to make sure that the first experience of gameplay lives up to the tagline, even before there's much story to experience.